Roger Norton

I write about Product, startups and innovation in Africa. My 40+ articles are grouped in handy lists that you can dig in easily around: 🛠 All things Product 🚀 For founders building startups 💪 Startup Support & Innovation Find them here: rogernort.medium.com/lists

@Discovery_SA you know that your latest bank apl update gets stuck at "contact permissions" screen in an infinite load. (Why on earth is this a compulsory blocking step?) can't access the app/bank accounts at all... 🤬

Turns out, if a social platform lets people pay for a premium profiles & promote their content over others... You get flooded by people who WANT to amplify extreme views and drown out the middle. interesting, agandaless posts also get swamped. I'm @rogernort on that other app

i enjoyed this very nuanced perspective on a very practical, but still exciting, future of powerful AI could look like darioamodei.com/machines-of-lo…

@MorolongZA @FNBSA @AbsaSouthAfrica Check out Discovery if you fly often. Skipping that queue (and the lounges) is totally underrated. Also, it's probably time to leave the legacy banks in the history where they belong...

.I think it's time I move my main cheque to @FNBSA so I can enjoy airport lounging fully because this admin with @AbsaSouthAfrica credit card linked rewards are too irritating for me

@DeveloperNathan Apparently so

@rogernort Whoops my bad. I read that correctly now. Is he really top 20 Diablo?

The richest guy in the world (who runs 5+ companies and a political campaign) being top 20 globally in Diablo 4 says more about how it's pay-to-play than any brilliance on his part. #JustSaying

@DeveloperNathan I was just making a comment about Diablo4... 😬

@rogernort Democrats spent twice as much money on the election and lost.

@DarrelFrater I'd love to chat to them about @letsokhi...

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@VALRdotcom your device verification emails aren't getting sent and it's blocking me from logging in... 😬 (I tried 3x over 20mins and checked spam.)

@SimplyAzodo Check out nexus.trixta.io leveraging AI to spin out a full set of user stories.

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But locking baskets to user over addresses is not it.

That behavior would help my wife and I in the CBD, but also allow parents to share grocery orders with their kids. I could review my mom’s order, add flowers and pay. An office can have a shared list that the admin person auths. So much potential…

@Sixty60_Tweets love the app overhaul and general improvements, but how do you still not have shared shopping list functionality? And why are your accounts by user not household?

@wizaj There has been a fair bit of movements at the CBN and pressure from the NSA to tighten up processes and traceability for AML. It’s been a long time coming since the greylisting and big wheels move slow.

Ok ok I bite. Why are several mainstream Nigerian banks all changing core banking apps at the same time? Obviously this huge for different reasons but I’m just curious to understand what the technical factors justifying it are

@VusiThembekwayo I'll see you in the airport lounge!

@natiakourdadze OkHi makes addresses useful again for financial services.

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It's 💩 all the way down... x.com/astuyve/status…

I can't help but think that the MKBDH app is the perfect example of the 💩 generated by AI code. Turns out you'll need professional software devs for a while still...